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Having done a few posts I think it is time to say hello here.My name is Jonny and I am a 41 year old atheist living in the UK.I have never believed in any god or gods.Even as a child I can remember feeling uncomfortable singing in church or saying prayers.I fully admit to having believed in Santa Claus as a child though!It has been so heartwarming to read posts on this forum and finding myself agreeing with so many things posted.I do not have a great knowledge of religion but even looking at it in simple terms I do not think it adds up so why look deeper ? (I do appreciate that many theists only know the parts of the bible that are cherry picked for them in church)I look forward to joining in with discussions in the future.

So your family were still going to church in 70's and 80's Britain ? What bad luck was that.

I never even heard of Christianity as child. The first religion I heard anything about was Hinduism. That was through a music connection. So I read some books about Hinduism and learnt some Sanskrit. Later I started lessons in the bible at school but the stories always seemed so naive to me. Whenever the teacher asked me a question I always said "it does not agree with reality". The school put me in the lowest class for religion for " lack of interest ". Actually my real feeling was anger that an adult was spouting such nonsense to kids, myself being one of them. What I noticed was that it was the quiet kids who most easily accepted it, especially the quiet kids of low intelligence. Recently I was browsing on the Internet and accidentally came upon the website of one of those religious nuts who say they have been chosen by god to set up a new church and lead their followers to heaven. I was surprised to see that it was one of the quiet boys from my school who had needed special lessons to help him read and write! The teachers had put in all the extra effort with him and he had misused it.

I urge any religious person to look carefully at the educational background of their preacher and ask carefully who it is who wants to control your life. Is it god who wants to control your life or your preacher and is he so well qualified that you would trust him to control your life?

FoxyFreedom- Thanks for the reply. It was actually school that took me to church- school and church were a short walk apart. I had a very good friend at school who's family were Sikh so I realised early on that they can't all be right and hence maybe none are.My mum found religion later in life when she got together with my step dad.My real dad was an asshole and she felt it must have been god that guided her to my step dad.